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| NYC jails add restrictive housing units, limit solitary |
| By morningjournalnews.com |
| Published: 01/14/2015 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City jail oversight board voted unanimously Tuesday to create restrictive housing units at Rikers Island for violent inmates, to limit guards' longstanding practice of placing inmates in solitary confinement for breaking jailhouse rules and to ban 23-hour confinement altogether for inmates younger than 21 by next year. The changes, amended at the eleventh hour after board members voiced reservations about the 250 beds of "enhanced supervision housing," caps more than a year of work by jail watchdogs to codify the solitary reforms. The new housing units would lock selected inmates in their cells for 17 hours daily, limit their access to religious services and the law library, screen their mail, restrict their movements and deny them certain visits. "I do not support locking in the enhanced supervision inmates 17 hours a day," said Bryanne Hamill, a board member who met Monday with Commissioner Joseph Ponte to work out changes to the housing rules. "However, my preference to start the meaningful solitary confinement that commenced a year ago, the reforms, feels to me like it's held hostage to the enhanced supervision unit." Read More. |
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